San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-16
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

The Texas wisecare. who imsgines
that Irish temper cannot make itself felt
In Lord LandsdOwne's case because he
is at Government House, Ottawa, had
better take counsel from his dispatches
and revise his opinions.
The heart of PATHS manager need not
got 90 pitti-pat over his New York en-
gsgement. The sale OF seats before the
opening night was 100000, sufficient
sum to warrant the success of the enter
prise and show margin for profits.
The one fact of all others that most
Anglers Herr Most In reviewing his
| prison life is that he was compelled to
wash himself at regular periods. His
washing does not appear to have i'm
proved his socialistio eyesight.
Now that the returns are all In, and
the foOtings made, the conclusion of the
whole matter Ia that the Chicago an
archists are not as strong as the fright
ened democrats Imagined them to be.
AUSTIN, true to its instincts, having
got rid Of the crazy legislature, is now
stuck on crazy quilts and crazy tea.
That crazy burg goes crazy as a bed
bug over anything OF the crazy order. In
fact, Ii is sanest when crazy.
FRIEND DANA does not concede that
the next New York state democratic
convention will give Grover Cleve-
land even a minority representation.
Dana is the Ishmaelite of the democracy
according TO Grover.
The AtacOsR drOuth reports are care
F,,lt al "a a. 4.
After making all allowance for this ex-
aggeratiOn, however, there is no doubt
that considerable suffering prevails, and
San Antonio is devising for its relief.
THE Ohio idea is not bad one in
more respects than one. A Cleveland
coal dealer has been fined 500 for sell
ing ton OF coal that weighed less than
1000 pounds.
TERRANCE V. POwDKRLY Is not the only
man in America with his eyes opened
sufficiently 10 see that the wOrkingmen
OF this country are reasonably well OIL.
The labor statistics of the country are
full OF encouragement.
FROM what authentic source does the
Express gather the Information that the
superintendent Of the state reiOrmatory
Ia to have EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
A YEAR, HOUSE RENT AND FAMILY SUPPLIES
See this mornings editorials In that
journal.
FORTY-NINE hundred students serenad-
ed King William OF the Netherlands, not
Emperor Wilhelm, as stated in a morn
ing editorial. emperor Wilhelm" ia
ian aged ruler" and Every poorly" 1t is
true, but King William of Holland who
has just passed his 10th birthday is quite
hearty and bears his age bravely.
WHAT is the matter with Cleveland
that the Atlanta Constitution should rise
and say: "A president who recognizes,
as Abraham Lincoln did, that this Ia a
government OF the people, by the people
and for the people, cannot make any Sc
riOus mistakes" Is the Constitution
squirting Shermanward?
The dram shop rentals In New York
aggregate $4,000 900 annually. II Hill
had not interpOsed that high license veto
there would have been notices, ITO
Let, on many Of these establishments,
and their places would soon be filled by
some of the productive lines OF business.
Hill has made himself solid with Tam
many.
Now that Beecher is dead and buried
his enemies have discovered that the
wife, who knew him best of all others,
who held even his most secret thoughts
In the guarded chamber of her wOmanly
soul, trusted him with the most sublime
faith. This knowledge is causing a re-
versal Of judgment concerning the man
whose shoes his carping critics were I'M
worthy to black.
The New York Sun is not a believer
In negative virtues as means OF saliva
ton for the benighted democracy. The
sun thinks that a stack Of these mega
tives as high as Growers chimney tops
would not suffice to arrest the demorail.
cations OF the democratic party. The
Sun from Its serene height appears to
have very correctly sized up the situa-
ton.
The Houston Herald, finding that the
city by the Bayou lacks the enterprise
to put the Light Guards upon their feet,
attempts to make capital by affecting to
underate the military skill OF the San
Antonio rifle companies. On no other
| ground can we account for the offer to
wager $500 that the Davis Rifles (color-
ed), OF that place, can put up q better
drill than either the San Antonios or
the Belknaps. II the Herald means bus
iness, 1t Ia mean business.
The big distillery city, Peoria, L.
linois, extends the palm Of recognition
and invites Carter Harrison, when he
shakes off the Chicago dust, to come to
her rectifying refuge and become news
paper tgurehead. Asa bourbon demo-
crat OF the most unimpeaohable stamp
Carter should make a good "burbon edi-
tor" In that role his cry of Harrison
and Reform! would startle Grover at Red
Top.
THE democracy Of Texas would give
all their old boots to know how the pro-
hibition cat is going to jump next
August. They would shape party &C
tiOn in the light Of such knowledge on
the old lines OF, heads l win, tails you
lose. But, alas even this thing is hid
den from their eyes, and the anti-prO-
hibitiveness OF their prohibition senti-